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...fearlessly predict, the public will. If insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, or drop people who get too sick, the public will love it. If health-care exchanges give individuals and small businesses the power to negotiate lower premiums from the insurance companies, people will love that too. Making health care available to everyone, even if some people - young, healthy people - who are not buying in now are told they have to join up, will also be well received. The odds are better than even that a bill containing those provisions will pass in Congress...
...have never determined whether anyone would live or die, which I consider a gaping hole in my résumé. So when I heard a rumor that the government was creating a death panel to determine which sick people get to receive medical care, I knew...
...public opinion. When the summer meetings began, Senator Baucus refused a seat to single-payer groups, although a sizeable part of his own party preferred the option. Senator Enzi has gunned down subsidies for the uninsured, cut required minimum benefits packages, and weakened regulations to prevent underwriting against the sick. Democratic Senator Kent Conrad won’t support a public option. Even if the gang does manage craft a bill, the chances of it being acceptable to the president’s base...
...city that is struggling to get back on its feet, those energy savings make a difference - as does the fact that some research has shown that students actually learn better in greener schools. (It's not exactly clear why that's the case - one possibility is that absenteeism and sick days both decrease when the indoor environment is healthier.) (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...building. The university also distributed flu kits containing Tylenol and a thermometer and created a "flu hotline" for parents and students to obtain more information. A faculty e-mail stated professors "simply must relax their attendance policies and allow makeup work. The alternative is to have students who are sick in class and exposing others with their germs." (See pictures of thermal screening for H1N1 infection symptoms...